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When Americans talk about the rise of Amazon and online retail, things get dystopian pretty quickly: loss of jobs, the death of local towns and brick-and-mortar shops, grueling conditions and low pay in Amazon's warehouses, etc. But there might be a b

When the upstart Diapers.com made inroads in home deliveries, Amazons slashed its diaper prices through a “Amazon Mom” program, absorbing millions in losses that pressured the startup to sell—which it ultimately did—to Amazon. The discounts were later rolled back leaving Amazon with a large swath

According to a CBinsights report, the lucky city that will be home to Amazons second headquarters, would need to have or train about 17,000 software engineers. Thats a mighty task, considering that there are already 223,054 open positions for software d

Amazon is considering a major policy change that would allow Alexa developers to see raw transcripts of users' transcripts with the virtual assistant. The move would be geared toward keeping Alexa competitive with other assistants. The post Watch what you

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has reportedly proposed sending a robotic lander to the moon’s south polar region by 2020, as an initialstep toward an “Amazon-like” lunar delivery system and eventually a pe